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i think what mcconnell wanted to put them on the record in the senate. it dies in the house. to harold's point the business communities of the community will go, you know what, we'll keep whatever we have in the bank in the bank. >> yeah. it will cut investment. but, mike, between the republican house and the democratic senate -- and you have been following politics for a long time -- has there ever been a more worthless congress that's done -- >> no. >> less? >> no. >> can you, in all of your years. >> no. >> think of a time? >> no. who would want to be there? they do nothing. they're worthless. >> i don't want to take the show into a bridge abutment, but listening to harold and michael, you join the two lines of thought together. the ineffective congress. the need for certainty e in american business. i'll tell you who doesn't have certainty because of the congress and politics is the american people. there is no certainty in this country as to what's going to happen to my children. we are now living in a country where because of the way this campaign is being waged on both
i think what mcconnell wanted to put them on the record in the senate. it dies in the house. to harold's point the business communities of the community will go, you know what, we'll keep whatever we have in the bank in the bank. >> yeah. it will cut investment. but, mike, between the republican house and the democratic senate -- and you have been following politics for a long time -- has there ever been a more worthless congress that's done -- >> no. >> less? >> no....
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. >> even if you take back the house, even if you take back the senate, mitch mcconnell will have 49 senators and you're not going to get anything done that mitch mcconnell doesn't want done and you can reverse that, if mitt wins, republicans win, then -- >> on the other hand a victory is a victory and if you get to a situation like last summer where you have a debt crisis like last summer i think the republican party will be in deep, deep crisis if it behaves the way it did last year. deep crisis after a victory. and also -- >> you can say that -- >> but the politics of the moment, the economic necessity, the national priority to solve these problems, is so intense, not just that problem, that these parties are going to have to find a way to behave in a more logical way. it's demanded of them by the american people. >> the white house does not realize now and the president does not realize right now, that his mere re-election will not make the republicans find him to be any more legitimate than bill clinton's re-election made him lenl mate and they're actually believing right now, i
. >> even if you take back the house, even if you take back the senate, mitch mcconnell will have 49 senators and you're not going to get anything done that mitch mcconnell doesn't want done and you can reverse that, if mitt wins, republicans win, then -- >> on the other hand a victory is a victory and if you get to a situation like last summer where you have a debt crisis like last summer i think the republican party will be in deep, deep crisis if it behaves the way it did last...
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mick mcconnell's still there. boehner's still there. and they got elected by the caucuses and by the people. you've got to respect them. and both of you respect the electorate. so you cut a deal. you don't mess around. you say okay, we're going to cut a deal. 60/40 your way this time, but you've got a deal. the trouble is if you have to deal with the tea party people, they're not the majority. you've got to work around them. that's all you have to do. if they're not going to cut a deal, you've got to work around them. >> mika, i love the story that richard reeves writes in his ronald reagan biography about tip o'neill and ronald reagan. and maybe the defining moment of that relationship, reeves writes that after the marines were killed in beirut, tip o'neill called together a meeting at hc-5, got all the democrats down together. they thought he was going to give a political speech. instead tip o'neill said to the democrats gathered there, while the barracks were still smoldering, he said, you know, today we're not democrats. today we're
mick mcconnell's still there. boehner's still there. and they got elected by the caucuses and by the people. you've got to respect them. and both of you respect the electorate. so you cut a deal. you don't mess around. you say okay, we're going to cut a deal. 60/40 your way this time, but you've got a deal. the trouble is if you have to deal with the tea party people, they're not the majority. you've got to work around them. that's all you have to do. if they're not going to cut a deal, you've...
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i think mitch mcconnell has a really tough job on his hands when this is all said and done. zbl let's talk about what is still fuelling the tea party. it's still a reaction to what happened in 2009, 2010, and when we have this discussion about whether an election of tea party senators is going to help move the ball forward and bring about compromise, well, the really response, the conservative response is yeah, yeah, it's probably not going to be anymore constructive as it comes to compromise between parties as the president was in 2009 and 2010. i mean, this is a reaction to the overreach and conservative size of what happened in 2009 and 2010. republicans an conservatives don't want that happening over the next years. >> it was about the tea party and spending. people saying the presidential year, it's a different dynamic and different electorate. but there will be energy on the right side from the tea party. there's no doubt. they're not going to lose a seat in texas over it. i think the tea party, as long as they focus on spending, it's probably certainly a net plus for
i think mitch mcconnell has a really tough job on his hands when this is all said and done. zbl let's talk about what is still fuelling the tea party. it's still a reaction to what happened in 2009, 2010, and when we have this discussion about whether an election of tea party senators is going to help move the ball forward and bring about compromise, well, the really response, the conservative response is yeah, yeah, it's probably not going to be anymore constructive as it comes to compromise...
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afterward, mitch mcconnell didn't respond to harry reid's statement. this is obviously not a vote they are particularly proud of, i don't think. >> for the life of me, you know, there are a lot of things that happen in politics and the governor can speak to this as well as anybody. and you seem to be -- if you're a republican, you have to say, we may have an opportunity tonight, being last night to pick up some momentum here. and then you go and vote on an issue that everyone can understand. the title of the bill is easy to understand. >> that's right. >> you know, this is such an easy -- the governor touched on it. the real loser last night was scott brown, because that could determine the balance of power in the senate. why republicans would put him on the spot like that should suggest to a lot of americans, particularly independent voters, this is not the group you want in charge in the white house. and this is not the group you want in charge in the senate either. >> if i were the republican leader, why wouldn't you have the senate pass the bill an
afterward, mitch mcconnell didn't respond to harry reid's statement. this is obviously not a vote they are particularly proud of, i don't think. >> for the life of me, you know, there are a lot of things that happen in politics and the governor can speak to this as well as anybody. and you seem to be -- if you're a republican, you have to say, we may have an opportunity tonight, being last night to pick up some momentum here. and then you go and vote on an issue that everyone can...
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and if you're john boehner or mitch mcconnell and still in the minority, you can say yeah, you won, but with a weak candidate, and we still have our house majority, and we still can block things in the senate. it's going to be very difficult for either of these guys, given the campaigns they're running, to be a strong enough president to send a signal to the markets, to send a signal to the american people in a lame-duck session or in january, yeah, i won so now we're going to do things my way and deal with all the complexity of the fiscal cliff, taxes and spending and revenue and medium and short-term deficit reduction. >> so this isn't a show about nothing. you disagree, obviously, ideologically on many levels with the president's position on the issues. what should mitt romney be saying? what is it that he's not saying that is frustrating you the most this morning, that is making it very hard to cover the story without just throwing your hands in the air and saying, come on. they're both not saying anything. what should he be saying that would make him -- >> i've said it repeatedly.
and if you're john boehner or mitch mcconnell and still in the minority, you can say yeah, you won, but with a weak candidate, and we still have our house majority, and we still can block things in the senate. it's going to be very difficult for either of these guys, given the campaigns they're running, to be a strong enough president to send a signal to the markets, to send a signal to the american people in a lame-duck session or in january, yeah, i won so now we're going to do things my way...
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. >> john cornyn, mitch mcconnell. this is a very delicate moment. this is not a low key thing where republicans are saying this is media bias. george allen running in virginia, proactively put out a long statement this morning condemning it. >> the question is, whether they have the political smarts to be aggressive, but yeah, lose the senate seat. lose the white house. let's -- balance that out. >> but as mark points out, it's delicate i think partly because the congressional wing of the republican party is going to be gauging in a debate like that how much it actually thinks mitt romney is likely to win. if the calculation is that they're very pessimistic about romney's chances their attitude might be -- >> this hurts everybody. >> i agree with that. >> this hurts george allen in virginia. scott brown in massachusetts. this hurts every candidate. >> because as we've seen, the obama campaign is very good at dominating news coverage with issues that it wants to drive. this is not an issue that mitt romney is going to be able to ignore one way or the
. >> john cornyn, mitch mcconnell. this is a very delicate moment. this is not a low key thing where republicans are saying this is media bias. george allen running in virginia, proactively put out a long statement this morning condemning it. >> the question is, whether they have the political smarts to be aggressive, but yeah, lose the senate seat. lose the white house. let's -- balance that out. >> but as mark points out, it's delicate i think partly because the...
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mitch mcconnell spelled it out. we're here to make him a one-term president and our job is to say no mp they've done it repeatedly. we always have 53 votes. we have a veterans jobs bill that may get through, but you have to look at it and say there's a real record of obstruction there. look at the farm bill. we passed a transportation bill and farm bill. sent it to the house and they fell flat on the face. they wouldn't call our bill. now we're in a situation with the disaster across the united states, the drought, and the house can't pass a bill. >> the republicans will say the same thing about harry reed. a lot of finger pointing going back and forth. >> how many of those bills were bipartisan coming out of the house? >> right. >> virtually none of them. it's run the flag up. let's throw something at solynd solyndra, let's throw something at -- >> is harry reed bipartisan? >> he has been. he can point to the transportation bill and the ag bill, the farm bill, two classic examples. strong bipartisan vote, the house
mitch mcconnell spelled it out. we're here to make him a one-term president and our job is to say no mp they've done it repeatedly. we always have 53 votes. we have a veterans jobs bill that may get through, but you have to look at it and say there's a real record of obstruction there. look at the farm bill. we passed a transportation bill and farm bill. sent it to the house and they fell flat on the face. they wouldn't call our bill. now we're in a situation with the disaster across the united...
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for the last two years, mitch mcconnell, trying to figure out what amendments he can put on the floor to make my life miserable. so many got you votes. all they have done is be obstructist and put something on the floor that would get me to vote my own mother. the games that have been played by the republican party, during our efforts to do something during this recession, now, are we without sin? of course we aren't. and that's part of the problem here. i'm a moderate. i want us to get along. i work with republicans and frankly, a lot of them are told to stay away from me right now, because think are trying to take me out. i had say until i go to my grave, it's a good thing to work with the other party, i want to build highways. i don't want to say my way or the highway. that's what's going on in this election. are we going to go to the extreme, like my opponents or take care of the moderate middle where we got the deals in terms of solving problems. >> it's like putting a bill out there that says we agree the sky is blue, and the republicans say we don't. i'm sorry. findings of an i
for the last two years, mitch mcconnell, trying to figure out what amendments he can put on the floor to make my life miserable. so many got you votes. all they have done is be obstructist and put something on the floor that would get me to vote my own mother. the games that have been played by the republican party, during our efforts to do something during this recession, now, are we without sin? of course we aren't. and that's part of the problem here. i'm a moderate. i want us to get along....
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it's not an accident that it was mitch mcconnell and joe biden who sat down finally to strike the deal on the debt ceiling. it's not an accident that simpson bowls -- there were democrats and republicans there, strong partisans who knew each other, who could agree. >> in the 1990s, mid 1990s, a lot of politicians stopped moving their families to washington. >> yes. >> so you stop your 8-year-old daughter stopped going to school with the 8-year-old daughter of your person on the other side of your committee. and i saw this first hand. when i finally moved to washington for a year, i had to start being a lot nicer to people, because oh, my gosh, you know, my baby girl is going to be angry at me when i get home if i am rude. it is. it's socializing. if your families are intertwined, you can't demonize the person on the other side. you have to deal with it. >> you know, the founding fathers in the convention had certain rules which was you couldn't walk away and walk around. you had to sit there and listen. we could require people to be on the floor. >> and sit and listen. >> yes. exactly.
it's not an accident that it was mitch mcconnell and joe biden who sat down finally to strike the deal on the debt ceiling. it's not an accident that simpson bowls -- there were democrats and republicans there, strong partisans who knew each other, who could agree. >> in the 1990s, mid 1990s, a lot of politicians stopped moving their families to washington. >> yes. >> so you stop your 8-year-old daughter stopped going to school with the 8-year-old daughter of your person on...
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he's talking about mitch mcconnell who runs the republican conference. and he was talking about myt romney and karl rove and all the other people who distanced himself from him over his en does the republican senator ideal committee start to put money back into the race? they promised not to. we heard they're rethinking that decision, because they have to win it or they're n going to win a clear majority in the senate. >> boy, john heilemann, that puts h i a difcult ti he,n saying that there's some people in washington that don't understand conservatism. i don't think that's the case. i think, again, and i quote nicole wallace who says, you know, people are debating about whether we'll be the conservative party, the moderate party, i'm just tired o us uk t sd party, the stupid party selects akin when they know he's the least likely to win a general election and get harry reid out of the majority leader position. you look at the loss in nevada with sharron angle, in delaware last ar, ae davet anr rs. we republicans could be in the majority except for a co
he's talking about mitch mcconnell who runs the republican conference. and he was talking about myt romney and karl rove and all the other people who distanced himself from him over his en does the republican senator ideal committee start to put money back into the race? they promised not to. we heard they're rethinking that decision, because they have to win it or they're n going to win a clear majority in the senate. >> boy, john heilemann, that puts h i a difcult ti he,n saying that...
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does that spill over into him not reaching out and having, you know, john boehner and mitch mcconnell to the white house for a few beers? is there an implication of that or just an observation about his personality? >> it could be both, given it's from rendell. in many ways during his presidency, president obama has outsourced a lot of his back slapping paul stuff to vice president biden, whether it's working the hill or working with foreign leaders or sort of working union halls in the rust belt and things like that. so, no, i don't think president obama -- i would somewhat disagree with governor rendell when he says that being shy is rare in politics. i think one of the things that politicians do is they sort of compensate for kind of natural shyness by becoming extroverts and sort of, you know, just working really, really hard in that sort of external realm. but i do think that clearly this is something that has hurt president obama at a time when people really do want to see a much more engaged and sort of, you know, maybe sort of socially engaged personality at the white house. >
does that spill over into him not reaching out and having, you know, john boehner and mitch mcconnell to the white house for a few beers? is there an implication of that or just an observation about his personality? >> it could be both, given it's from rendell. in many ways during his presidency, president obama has outsourced a lot of his back slapping paul stuff to vice president biden, whether it's working the hill or working with foreign leaders or sort of working union halls in the...
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, the head of the senate republicans, as of yesterday, the number two senate republican under mitch mcconnell, saying the republican party has a brand problem and a tactical problem. and the republican national chairman, reince priebus, saying in a presentation to senate republicans yesterday that the republican party needs to do a deep dive on what did wrong. they need to look at more of a 50-state strategy like democrats had. they are going to do focus groups on the republican message. and they're going to talk to state chairmen, donors, outside groups to figure out how they can make their message more rez nant and their machine more effective. >> as mike is explaining here, the reaction to what romney said is almost more interesting than what he said. bobby jindal went on to say two points. one, we have to stop dividing the voters. we need to go after 100% of the voters and show how our policies help every voter to achieve the american dream, not just a part of the country. is this a strategic moment for the republican party, turning away from the romney years and looking ahead to '16 and
, the head of the senate republicans, as of yesterday, the number two senate republican under mitch mcconnell, saying the republican party has a brand problem and a tactical problem. and the republican national chairman, reince priebus, saying in a presentation to senate republicans yesterday that the republican party needs to do a deep dive on what did wrong. they need to look at more of a 50-state strategy like democrats had. they are going to do focus groups on the republican message. and...
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here at cnbc in the business world we're parsing mitch mcconnell and john boehner like you guys are to see what realistic possibility there is to get some sort of deal, whether it will be in the lame duck or will continue to kick the can down the road. that's the discussion. and also i don't know what your habits are for thanksgiving. generally speaking, black friday is when people go shopping, crazy people get in line and that's when the companies turn into the black for the year. walmart is setting 8:00 p.m. as the start of their sales on thanksgiving day! >> oh, my goodness. >> that is when my kids are in bed and i sneak back into the fridge for number three helping. >> wow. 78:00 p.m. the previous day. >> brutal. >> that's awful! >> that's family time. >> hey, brian, thanks so much. we appreciate it. we'll be right back. humans -- even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why, at liberty mutual insurance, auto policies come with new car replacement and accident forgiveness if you qualify. see what else comes standard at l
here at cnbc in the business world we're parsing mitch mcconnell and john boehner like you guys are to see what realistic possibility there is to get some sort of deal, whether it will be in the lame duck or will continue to kick the can down the road. that's the discussion. and also i don't know what your habits are for thanksgiving. generally speaking, black friday is when people go shopping, crazy people get in line and that's when the companies turn into the black for the year. walmart is...
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remember in 2011 when it looked really bleak right before the debt ceiling, it was mitch mcconnell who stepped in and tried to find a solution. >> but politically he can't. >> explain that. >> politically he can't because it's bad politics for him. he's got 2014. and cornyn both have to worry about that. >> let's look at "the end of the line" in our final moments here which talks about what tipped the scales for obama at the end of the 2012 election. and i wonder how that plays into today or not. because it does feel like nothing's changed. and i'm not trying to be arrogant because i think this line is arrogant, but he did win the election. shouldn't that have some impact on where we are now? >> we found out in the e-book is that president obama basically rolled the dice in may. and they decided to spend their fall budget over the spring and summer trying to define governor romney. it was a bit of a risk because they weren't sure the money was going to be there back in the fall, but they defined governor romney in the spring and summer. and governor romney never got off this idea that
remember in 2011 when it looked really bleak right before the debt ceiling, it was mitch mcconnell who stepped in and tried to find a solution. >> but politically he can't. >> explain that. >> politically he can't because it's bad politics for him. he's got 2014. and cornyn both have to worry about that. >> let's look at "the end of the line" in our final moments here which talks about what tipped the scales for obama at the end of the 2012 election. and i...
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coming up, governor bob mcconnell talks about his state's preparation as the hurricane bears down. we'll update the storm's path with bill karins right after this. i'm a conservative investor. i invest in what i know. i turned 65 last week. i'm getting married. planning a life. there are risks, sure. but, there's no reward without it. i want to be prepared for the long haul. i see a world bursting with opportunities. india, china, brazil, ishares, small-caps, large-caps, ishares. industrials....